Biggest 1st place payout from a casino in Canada?

bluesky

With no tax on winnings.. you figure we hold bigger tourneys?

Also curious to see whats the biggest $ paid for 1st place?

compuease

Pretty sure this one will be the biggest to date..

Live Canada Poker Event - $2M GTD Tournament

bluesky

compuease;374675 wrotePretty sure this one will be the biggest to date..

Live Canada Poker Event - $2M GTD Tournament

Share of $2 Milly. You think it will be overlayed?

sn1perb0y

bluesky;374673 wroteWith no tax on winnings.. you figure we hold bigger tourneys?

Also curious to see whats the biggest $ paid for 1st place?

I'm not 100% sure, but the big one for one drop 1M buy-in probably had the biggest 1st prize money.

As for Canada, I think the 2M GTD by starts at playground is the biggest prize pool i've heard of so that would probably have the highest 1st prize money soon.

jontm

Nope, Nope Nope for Canada. WPT Montreal in 2012 was over 3.5 million and 777k for first. Also a $3300. When Clements won WPT 10k Fallsview he got like 1.2 million and there was another one close, both times think PP was over 5 million.

I'm really on the fence with Stars in Montreal, they extended qualifiers and haven't sattied in a ton, but it's Stars...given the FTP event in Montreal setting record for field size, I expect they can crush this. Things going against it are amount of big tourneys in area last few years (not sure how local ecosystem holding up), it's proximity to WSOP and lastly the name...not sure using what was always online event verbatim was smart, I know many are still confused.

This one could go either way

bluesky

Cool info!

BlondeFish

1) WPT NAPC 2007 ME: C$5,133,343 prize pool. 1st place - Scott Clements, C$1,456,585; 0 withholding.

2) WPT NAPC 2006 ME: C$4,829,332 pool. Instead of wasting money buying into US tournaments, Soren Turkewitsch of Oshawa smartly plays a C$50 satellite and parlays it to a C$1,352,224 win, with 0 withholding.

3) WPT NAPC 2008 ME: C$4,403,800 pool. Instead of buying into US tournaments, I told Glen Witmer of Waterloo that we should go play the WPT satellites. He wins his first ~$70 satellite and parlays it to a C$1,224,852 win, with 0 withholding.

bluesky;374673 wroteWith no tax on winnings.. you figure we hold bigger tourneys?
Also curious to see whats the biggest $ paid for 1st place?

bluesky

BlondeFish;374691 wrote1) WPT NAPC 2007 ME: C$5,133,343 prize pool. 1st place - Scott Clements, C$1,456,585; 0 withholding.

2) WPT NAPC 2006 ME: C$4,829,332 pool. Instead of wasting money buying into US tournaments, Soren Turkewitsch of Oshawa smartly plays a C$50 satellite and parlays it to a C$1,352,224 win, with 0 withholding.

3) WPT NAPC 2008 ME: C$4,403,800 pool. Instead of buying into US tournaments, I told Glen Witmer of Waterloo that we should go play the WPT satellites. He wins his first ~$70 satellite and parlays it to a C$1,224,852 win, with 0 withholding.

All very SICK!

piggypie123

bluesky;374739 wroteAll very SICK!

Agreed!

Tonychanman

I wonder why BC doesn't have any tournaments that come close to this. Is is a low population thing?

jontm

Tonychanman;374895 wroteI wonder why BC doesn't have any tournaments that come close to this. Is is a low population thing?

I think Negreanu won 600k in the BCPCs, another fellow close. There have been some good prizes but yes demographically the east slaughters the west and people seem to travel north south more imo

bluesky

At least Vancouver has some.. nicer casinos compared to Edmonton.